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EC6012 Problem Set 2 Marks

With apologies for the lateness, below are the problem set marks. Please note the (re)marks for PS1, if you’re effected by Stylised-Fact-Gate. If you have questions, please drop me a mail. Scripts can be picked up from the department office, KB3-22a, tomorrow.

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What will Irish Graduates do Next Year?

Liam and the lads at the Geary Blog ask the question, and I’d like to ask our UL students—what will you do next year, as you graduate? PhD? MA? Work? Travel? Here’s a little survey gizmo to start, and if you’ve something  more to add, please leave a comment.
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EC6012 International Monetary Economics Revision Lecture

I’ll hold a revision lecture in KB 1-11 at 10am on Monday, 27 April, hope you all can make it.

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EC6012 Problem Set 1 Answers, Marks, and Marking Scheme

Here is the marking scheme and suggested answers, and below are the marks by student number. I’ll hand back the problem sets in class. The average mark was 85%, which was excellent. Each question was scored out of 10, so the best possible score for the main section is 40. I write this so you [...]

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The IMF on Crisis and Recovery

The IMF released it’s World Economic Outlook report, which has some interesting things to say about the international economic situation. Pay particular attention to page 105, where they contrast today’s economic outlook with the Great Depression. This report resonates well with the recent work of O’Rourke and Eichengreen, too.  

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What is the point of the economy?

Visiting a friend’s house last night, their seven year old asked what I did. I told her I was a guy who studied the economy.
She asked me:

What does the economy do?

In your opinion, what does the economy do? Answers either by email or in the comments.

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EC6012 Problem Set 2

Here’s the second problem set for International Monetary Economics. There are 4 questions. Questions 1-3 are compulsory, question 4 is extra credit. This is worth 15% of your grade, and due in Monday, 20th of April at the start of class.
Typo: For question 2, equation (2) has all + signs, the i on the deposit [...]

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Assessment Guide for EC6012

Here’s a fully worked out past exam with questions and answers, to give students a sense of the type of answers I’m looking for in the sample exam and in the exam itself.
Here’s the sample exam, and here’s a good reading for Question 3.
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EC6012 Lecture 10: The Equations for Finance

Here’s part 1 of a two part lecture on a new paper describing how we should think about modeling a world with different interest rates in a simple Keynesian schema.
A 3 slide handout is here, and the slides are below

Ec6012 Lecture10 The Equations of Finance

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EC6012 Lecture 8

Here are the lecture notes for the lecture
And here is the presentation Wealth Effects, Government Budget Constraints, and Ben Bernanke – EC6012 Lecture 8

IS LM and Beyond

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The main papers you should read are here and here.

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